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Dan do you have specific Tiers you want us to prep for the special?
Given the player base I know. I expect levels 1-7 to have the largest showing. With out of the 4 tables maybe one table giving 5-7. That's just an educated guess though. There may be a group of level 11's out there I have no clue of. ><
Venture-Agent, Indiana—Valparaiso
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Looks like it's just gonna be a day trip for me on Saturday, will make slots 2 and 3 on Saturday.
Signed up to play Sewer Dragons and to run the special.
Still scheduled for Year of the Shadow Lodge right? Not Blood under Absalom.
If so this will make my wife very happy. Her main is 9th so we may get a high level table.
Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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I have only one map left for the special, which I hopefully will not have to run. Gotta say, not too impressed with it. Seems really confusing, and the directions are not very clear to me.
Other than that, really looking forward to the Con. I just hope I survive it... ;)
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I recommend a GM meeting a hour or so prior to the event so any questions on how it runs can be answered. Most of us had a great time playing/running Year of the Shadow lodge, I know I did.
I wish the convention scheduled more than 30 minutes between slots...
The venue has a limiting factor on how early and how late we can be there thus cramping slots together. There was talk of moving the venue if we get enough people there this year and outgrow this subpar site. Here's hoping.|
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Hey Dan, have you registered the events? If so, what's the event code, and are you getting the sheets for all tables, or do each of the gm's need to do their own?
Event# 10400
I will be providing sheets as soon as the website lets me download the sheets. I posted a thread regarding the sudden inability to download the session sheets. No response as of yet.
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I saw that, I was going to ask my question there, but decided this would be the better place. :)
Eric, I was looking at the session sheets. I will have you GM if we have 16+ players, not including you. More than that and I/we risk overloading our 3 GM's. If there was a better way, I would do it, but unfortunately that's what we have to work with.
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That's cool with me Dan. And if anyone needs maps for it and I don't end up running, I've got them.
I'm hoping the other 3 GM's which are almost certain to run will have there maps already! LOL.
Maybe your maps will be super awesome and someone will want yours instead. :P
Heck I wanted and asked for another GM's maps for Intro 2 at U-Con. They were flipping awesome! 3D with props and stuff! Oh I was so jealous of his map. Made mine look like complete poop! I never used my map after he lent me his.
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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Well, I usually spend a good 3-5 hour per map... I tend to go overboard on some things... ;)
Of course for Shadow Lodge, I didn't do an arena or the Market, since I had the market flip mat, and have an arena map from "a company who shall not be named"'s free RPG day module a year or so ago. Since the scenario says that the map is only to assist in combat, not directly reproduce the arena. I actually had two, but one was only the arena floor, while the other has the stands as well. Saved me a bit of time. :)
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I tend to spend a bit of time per map as well, and hand draw and color them. I had Brent Barbee tell me "I see you've been playing with Doug Miles" when he saw my maps for Carrion Crown. It's just how do you compare to a guy who spent 20 hours on one map and made it 3D? I don't know how you make a 2D map compare to a to scale 3D map. :P
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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I thought I'd mention that this weekend is the last weekend for Merrymead too. I'm planning on bringing a bunch of these for those in my games that haven't had a chance to get it yet. I'd love to see someone play a character who is drunk through some of the scenarios... :) Would be quite fitting for the Shadow Lodge special.
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Well, here are my thoughts and how I think it will run. At the end of every session. The GM will have a D20 roll off that includes themself if they desire. High roller ties are rerolled. Winner comes to my table and gets to draw from my Harrow deck, and will recieve a prize. Prizes will vary in value from super awesome to "that's neat". I will probably give each GM a sticker gold star, and they can apply it to the winners chronicle sheet or to their report sheet if the GM wins.
If you have anything that you think would a really cool prize or something of value, we can add it to the pile and replace my lower value prizes. Since whatever is not being provided by Paizo is provided by me, this is a donation process and by no means required. If you do have something PM me. I prefer the prizes remain a surprise. :)
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Less than a day till the fun starts.
I have:
50 character sheets
100 Merrymeade Boons
10 1st level pregens
5 4th level pregens
3 7th level pregens
28 tables worth of sign up sheets
2 up to date society guides
28 tables worth of prizes
10 new player cards, and I'll print more if needed.
28 tables worth of reporting sheets
Going to buy tonight:
a box of el cheapo pencils
An el cheapo pencil sharpener
A box of el cheapo pens
a few packs of index 3x5 index cards
28 stickers for prize markers.
Have I missed anything?
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I tend to spend a bit of time per map as well, and hand draw and color them. I had Brent Barbee tell me "I see you've been playing with Doug Miles" when he saw my maps for Carrion Crown. It's just how do you compare to a guy who spent 20 hours on one map and made it 3D? I don't know how you make a 2D map compare to a to scale 3D map. :P
Don't worry Dan once you see the maps I have for the mods I am GMing you will definitely feel better about yours. I have a couple of flip maps, but the rest... well lets just say that I won't be winning any art hop events for my gaming paper masterpieces.
PFS maps are just like Pinata's... you keep swinging at stuff until the treasure comes out or someone gets hit in the :)
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Just a reminder, for those that want to continue advancing their PFS characters, Gryphcon is next weekend.
As Dan said it's only 2-3 hours across the border. Closer than Toronto.
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If you are further south and Gryphcon is too far to drive, we welcome you to attend Who's Yer Con in Indianapolis, 2-4 March.
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17 of 21 tables successfully gone off at end of day 2. 7 more slots tomorrow. If we run 5 of those we've grown compared to last year! Lost two of our slots to downed GM, 2 to a lack of demand in the 3-7 range. All of our 5-9 tables were successful with a 4+ table. Every available 1-5 was filled to the brim. So, yea a 20% casualty rate is considered mission successful. So YAY! We're "militaristically" speaking successful!
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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Yeah, I ran that.
Sadly, I couldn't find my Ambush in Absalom (and didn't think about running it off my laptop until the slot was almost over, though then I wouldn't have had the chronicle sheets anyway), so I helped one guy level his cleric, while having time to eat lunch and get to know the players better. If I had thought about it (earlier than the ride home) I also could have possibly run Citadel of Fire which I had with me for them, I'm sure they would have demolished that one too. :)
They all seemed to have a lot of fun even if it was short, and I think they were quite proud of the fact that they were able to breeze through it so quickly.
I have to say I enjoyed myself immensely. My first time running at a convention, and running 5 fun tables definitely makes me want to run at more. I'm glad to finally put some faces to some of the names on here. And look forward to Marmalade Dog 18.
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Alright! Reporting for this event is complete and we totaled out at 23 tables! Which is a 10% increase over M-Dog 16! If you'd like to continue helping PFS grow in the Kalamazoo, MI region, come look us up at our facebook Pathfinder Society: Kalamazoo or our Warhorn (Warhorn.org/pfs.kalamazoo).
I want to toss a special thanks to all of the GMs that helped make this possible. Without you, we could have never pulled this off!
Thank You (In no particular order):
Christian Smucker
Mike Upston
Brent Barbee
Sam Luckett
Ben Luckett
Eric Clingenpeel
Matt Haddix
Swiftbrook!
Brian Mooney
You all great GM's and I hope to see all of you next year!
Lastly, I want to give a shout out to Mike Brock and Paizo for their support with our prizes and scenarios. They made this entire process very smooth for us and the prizes definitely lit up more than one persons eyes in delight!
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I went and broke down the stats for last this convention so that I have something to work from for next year. I'm posting it here for anyone interested.
Slot-----Tables-----Players
Slot 1-----3-----17
Slot 2-----3-----19
Slot 3-----4-----20
Slot 4-----4-----21
Slot 5-----3-----18
Slot 6-----3-----17
Slot 7-----3-----15
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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So, quite a few 6 person tables, huh? I think we could have possibly used another GM or two. Looks like there was a 7 person table Friday night? I know that last slot I only had 3, so the other two were a full 6 as well. Interesting stats Dan. So at most we had 25 people playing (unless you're counting GM's as players).